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News Release from: Heidelberg | Subject: TD-94 Flexomailer
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 10 March 2004
DM Finisher Opts For Heidelberg
Flexomailer
Avalon Trade Finishers will take delivery of a TD94 Flexomailer to replace a three year-old Hunkeler system.
Avalon Trade Finishers will take delivery of a TD94 Flexomailer to replace a three year-old Hunkeler system At the same time the Bristol (UK) company looks set to sign a deal for an additional KD76 combination folder and a fourth saddle-stitcher, an ST100 with six stations and a cover feeder
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 6 Jun 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The modular Flexomailer will include re-moist gluing, hot and cold contact gluing, latex, timed cutting (for shapes and holes in envelopes) and pattern perfing.
The new folder and stitcher will add capacity but also give the security of back up needed by a trade finisher often working to exceptionally tight deadlines.
Avalon is moving ahead with a factory extension which will take it from 10,000 square feet to 15,000 square feet so that it can bring its re-moist and spine gluing company in alongside the fold-stitch-trim operation.
That may result in more staff being recruited as the 12 hours-a-day gluing operation moves to match the round the clock working pattern of the fold, stitch and trim side.
The Bristol business is one of about 50 UK companies offering direct mail finishing and one of only about 12 trade finishers to do so.
But managing director Nigel Cuming said his three years' experience in direct mail work has been good and the company attributes ?300,000 out of its ?1.5m turnover to this work.
Most of Avalon's work is for financial institutions and often involves complex work requiring brochures, applications and reply envelopes.
Cuming added: "Printers tend to be the companies that put in mailers because there is a lot of this work about and it is very lucrative.
We tend to get the one offs and the more complex, challenging jobs.
We have specified the machine so that it is very adaptable.
If we have no mailing for a couple of days we will use the line for complex folding or section work.".
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